ENGINEERS' DISPUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 8

ENGINEERS' DISPUTE.

AX ABORTTVK COSFEREXCK. (By Telegraph.- Press As?ociatinn.t U'ICTXINTiTOX, Tuesday. .\ .unferente ojvened to-night between a rftmmitte'' up by the Amalgamated i»ocioly of Knpjneers and the employers confprnrd, to i'onsidpr the demands recently made 'by the men. liut it came to an abrupt cud in less than ten m i nu tes . The men state that they submitted their schedule to the employers, who refused even to consider it. Consequently no agreement was arrived at, and it seems probable that the dispute will <ro before the Arbitration Court. -Air. YV. Cable, one of the employers eoneerned. was asked liy a reporter whether the men's version of the affair that the employers would not listen to I heir demands was eorreef. "Certainly it is." said Mr. (able. "The conference was entirely abortive. The lirat thin;; «c wanted to know was Mho were the men on the union's committee. and where they worked. The committee whom we were meeting refused point bank to *ay who they were. We made ,tlmt knowledge a condition of our eonsiderin- the qucfition at all. and when lit: W. retted we had nothing to do iwith the trholp affair."